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ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-07-20

Podcast Show Notes: The Role of the Cloud Architect - Part 3/3 - Why architects need to up their game
All three parts of my conversation with Cloud architects Ron Batra (Product Director, Cloud Computing, AT&T and an Oracle ACE Director) and Dr. James Baty (VP of Oracle's Global Enterprise Architecture Program) are now available. If you're interested in how cloud computing is changing the role of the solution architect, and what architects need to do to stay ahead of the cloud curve, you'll want to check out this interview.

Webcast: Lightweight #Java EE Architectures with @AdamBien - July 24 - 10am PT / 1pm ET
Don’t miss this Webcast as Java Champion architect Adam Bien offers his perspective on Spring 3 Framework and Java EE. Adam will talk about how Java EE 6 creates modern, lightweight architectures for enterprise Java. He'll also cover Java EE 6 concepts as well as the Spring 3 Framework used with Java EE 6, comparing the pros and cons of using them together or independently. Part of the Oracle WebLogic DevCast series.

Business SOA: Thinking is dead | Steve Jones
"Planning, architecture and design are being seen in parts of IT as bad things as a mentality develops around a concept that some how basic fundamentals such as TDD, contract design and doing things that are actually proven to work are in some way wrong," says Capgemini's Steve Jones. "Adoption of unproven technologies is rife as is the surprise when those technologies fail to deliver on the massively over hyped expectation and indeed fail to even come close to delivering at the level of dull old technologies that do the job but don't currently have the twitterati in thrall."

Oracle RTD Hardware Requirements and Components
In the latest post in his series on Oracle Real Time Decisions (RTD), Rittman Mead's James Knight looks at components that live in the RTD black box and offers examples of some RTD environments.